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New York Post [11/9/2025 6:27 PM, Caitlin McCormack, 42219K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement have received more than 200,000 job applications since President Trump launched its new crackdown on illegal immigration, officials said. That includes a surge in applications since the government shutdown started at the end of September, according to a Friday announcement. The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that upwards of 200,000 "patriotic Americans" had submitted applications to join ICE. "ICE has received more than 200,000 applications from patriotic Americans who want to defend the homeland by removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. Americans are answering their country’s call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country," Noem said in a statement. In mid-September, exactly two weeks before the government shutdown started, Noem boasted that the agency had received approximately 150,000 applications and extended 18,000 tentative offers. In August, Noem also announced that the federal government would eliminate the age cap so that anyone could apply to be an ICE agent.

Washington Times [11/9/2025 11:53 AM, Matt Delaney, 852K] reports officials with the Department of Homeland Security said Border Patrol agents were shot at Saturday in Chicago while authorities were conducting immigration enforcement in the southwestern part of the city. The DHS said an unknown male driving a black Jeep opened fire at the agents before speeding off near the corner of 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue. A crowd of “agitators” also threw a paint can and bricks at Border Patrol vehicles in the area, federal officials said. Chicago police confirmed that officers arrived to help clear the scene of a shooting but said there were “no reports of anyone being struck by gunfire.” Authorities said the shooter remains at large and didn’t say if anyone was arrested amid the chaos. “This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of violence and obstruction,” the DHS posted on X. “Over the past two months, we’ve seen an increase in assaults and obstruction targeting federal law enforcement during operations. These confrontations highlight the dangers our agents face daily and the escalating aggression toward law enforcement. The violence must end.” Immigration agents were targeted in separate attacks last month as part of Operation Midway Blitz.

FOX News [11/9/2025 5:14 PM, Greg Wehner, 40621K] reports a manhunt is underway after federal immigration agents were targeted in four violent attacks Saturday while conducting enforcement operations in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, where rioters opened fire, hurled debris and rammed vehicles in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called an unprecedented assault on law enforcement. According to DHS, agents were boxed into a street and alley while making an arrest when a man driving a black Jeep opened fire and fled. As the confrontation escalated, agents deployed a flash-bang device while crowds threw bricks and paint cans from rooftops. Chicago police helped evacuate the area, and while no one was injured, several vehicles were damaged. Officials said the violence spread across several city blocks as agents endured four separate attempts to ram their convoy, including near an FBI facility where demonstrators tried to breach the perimeter before police restored order. Protesters also blocked streets and threw more objects, prompting agents to use crowd control measures to clear a path. Over roughly three hours, agents came under gunfire, were rammed four times and faced mobs hurling debris. Nine people — including eight U.S. citizens and one non-citizen — were arrested on charges ranging from assault to obstruction. DHS said the gunman who fired on agents remains at large. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin directly blamed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for fostering hostility toward law enforcement and accused the media of spreading false narratives about immigration operations. "JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson have fueled an environment of lawlessness and assault on federal law enforcement," McLaughlin said. She said agents endured gunfire, violent mobs, and vehicle attacks across Chicago in less than three hours, describing the wave of assaults as "unprecedented" and the product of anti-police rhetoric. "Make no mistake: Our mission will continue despite the violence," she said. "To any Antifa terrorist in Chicago: You will not stop us. You will not slow us down. And if you lay a hand on law enforcement, you will face the consequences.".

FOX News [11/9/2025 3:08 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports Border patrol agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations in a Chicago neighborhood, when a man fired shots at agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Chicago Tribune [11/9/2025 6:01 PM, Caroline Kubzansky, 4829K] reports Rafael Veraza and Evelin Herrera were headed to Sam’s Club in Cicero with their 1-year-old daughter Saturday for diapers, eggs, milk and other groceries, when they heard car horns and helicopters. Just across the city line, federal agents were descending on Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. As they pulled into the parking lot at the intersection of Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, the Berwyn couple saw a convoy of federal vehicles driving toward them. Herrera took her phone out to record, following the advice of her mother. They decided to turn around. A few seconds later, a black car, traveling the opposite direction from them, rolled past. Herrera’s video shows a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arianna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut. Black vehicles continued to roll past as Veraza pulled over. Bystanders rushed to wash out the family’s faces. Neighbors, activists and politicians flooded the area to demand that agents get out of town, film their actions and tail their convoy as it moved through Little Village, Lawndale and Tri-Taylor, where agents regrouped at the FBI headquarters. The chaos followed a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that someone had shot at a car of agents near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue. Chicago police responded to the intersection, but said there had been no report of any person shot. Representatives with the Department of Homeland Security didn’t address the Veraza family’s run-in in a statement, only saying that people "stalked" the federal convoy into the Sam’s Club parking lot and that one Border Patrol vehicle was rammed during that confrontation. Per the statement, federal agents arrested nine people, eight of whom were citizens, over the course of the morning. At a nearby hospital Saturday afternoon, doctors called poison control for Arianna and washed Veraza’s face and ears with saline. His whole face had gone numb, he said.

ABC 7 Chicago [11/9/2025 7:08 PM, Michelle Gallardo, 30493K] reports Saturday’s clashes during federal immigration operations in Little Village came just days after a federal judge tightened the rules regulating how immigration enforcement agents are allowed to employ use of force tactics against residents and journalists during Operation Midway Blitz. While the U.S. Department of Homeland security is once again justifying their actions, the question becomes whether the judge overseeing the preliminary injunction will agree as even her orders are now being appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Cellphone video showed the moment Saturday morning Rafael Veraza says he and his family were pepper sprayed by Border Patrol agents in the parking lot of a Sam’s Club in Cicero, just over the city border from Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. "He started spraying from the front of the car towards the back. Basically I got sprayed all over my face," Veraza said. He said his 1-year-old daughter Arianna, who was riding in the back of the car, also breathed in the gas. Both were briefly hospitalized. "My daughter was trying to open her eyes," Veraza said. "She was struggling to breathe." DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin posted a statement to social media Sunday, saying, "No. There was no crowd control or pepper spray deployed in a Sam’s Club parking lot. Though, over the weekend in Chicago, law enforcement was shot at, bricks thrown at them, they were rammed with vehicles and other attacks..." Homeland Security says Border Patrol agents had entered the Sam’s Parking lot shortly after deploying crowd control measures on the residents of Little Village. It happened in the aftermath of what they said were gunshots fired from a black Jeep Wrangler aimed directly at them. "Individuals stalked and followed the convoy into the parking lot and a vehicle rammed a Border Patrol’s vehicle," a DHS statement read in part. "After departing the parking lot, the law enforcement convoy was again attacked resulting in a broken window." Images showing the damage were also released by DHS. However, there was no explanation as to why Veraza and his family, who had decided to abort their shopping trip after seeing the agents’ presence, were pepper sprayed.

FOX News [11/9/2025 11:20 AM, Anders Hagstrom, 40621K] reports President Donald Trump’s administration called on a federal judge to approve the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia on Friday, arguing all legal hurdles had been cleared. The Friday filing is the latest in the administration’s efforts to deport Abrego Garcia a second time following his return from El Salvador earlier this year. The Justice Department called on U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis to clear the deportation, saying Abrego Garcia had failed to establish that he would face persecution in Liberia. "Petitioner’s claims are procedurally barred multiple times over and fail on the merits in any event," the DOJ argued. "This Court should therefore dissolve its preliminary injunction and permit the government to remove Petitioner to Liberia.". Attorneys for the U.S. also said Liberia has made "sufficient and credible" arguments that Abrego Garcia will not face harm. Nevertheless, lawyers for Abrego Garcia argue that he has not received sufficient due process to justify his deportation. "The Government insists that the unreasoned determination of a single immigration officer—who concluded that Abrego Garcia failed to establish that it is ‘more likely than not’ that he will be persecuted or tortured in Liberia— satisfies due process. It does not," his attorneys wrote in their own Friday filing. His attorneys further argue that Abrego Garcia is the victim of retaliatory prosecution, noting that Costa Rica has already offered to accept his deportation flight on a refugee status. The U.S. said it would not send him to Costa Rica unless he agreed to plead guilty to human trafficking charges.

USA Today [11/9/2025 9:26 AM, Daniel Gonzalez, 67103K] reports at 1:20 p.m. on Aug. 20, an Airbus 320 passenger jet landed at the Tapachula International Airport. Instead of the typical commercial travelers who arrive daily at this sweltering tropical city in Mexico’s southern tip, the plane carried a unique kind of passenger: people who had just been deported from the United States. Among the deportees were middle-aged men and women who had not set foot in Mexico since they left as young children just 7 or 8 years old. Some arrived in long-sleeved fluorescent shirts stained with sweat — the same work shirts they wore the day they were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States. Most still had family in the United States. One, 40-year-old hairstylist Patricia Reyes, left behind three U.S. citizen children, two of them serving in the U.S. military. She said she was deported after a domestic violence dispute turned into an immigration case. "I have two daughters in the Marines, yet they deported me," Reyes said as she rushed to flag down a taxi moments after walking out of a reception center for recently arrived deportees, known as returnees in Mexico. "I mean, they don’t even care about that.". Some said they were caught at the U.S. southern border on their first day in the United States. Many said they had lived in the United States for years, and in some cases, decades and described deep roots in America. Some spoke English better than Spanish. Others said they had no place to go in Mexico or relatives to call and recognized that a life of uncertainty lay ahead. For years, this city of 350,000 in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state, was flooded with migrants from around the world headed for the United States after crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Now, Tapachula is experiencing a reverse migration, as the United States sends planeload after planeload of deportees to the southern part of Mexico while the flow of migrants headed north has dried up. The U.S. deportation flights to Tapachula are unprecedented, migration experts say. They started in February with one flight per week. By August, they had increased to once a day, but in September they dropped down to twice a week, according to groups in Tapachula that assist migrants.

Univision [11/9/2025 12:41 PM, Grettel Reinoso, 5004K] reports in a controversial decision (6-3) of the U.S. Supreme Court in September, the country’s highest court overturned the order of a judge prohibiting federal agents in Los Angeles from detaining people and questioning them about their immigration status based solely on their appearance, the language they speak or where they are. Although it is not a final ruling on that case (Noem vs. Vázquez Perdomo), accepting the government’s emergency request, the Supreme Court gave the green light to federal agents, at least as litigation continues, to continue making arrests and using aggressive tactics that his critics claim are unconstitutional and violate the Fourth Amendment. In fact, both a federal court in Los Angeles and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that these actions were illegal examples of racial profiling. However, while the court did not explain his decision, a concurrent view of conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, appointed by President Donald Trump in his first term, claimed that agents can detain someone if they have “a reasonable suspicion” that that person is in the United States without legal status. Although he added, while the "apparent ethnicity" alone cannot determine a reasonable suspicion, it can determine whether it is combined with other factors, such as the person speaking Spanish or English with an accent, and that it is located in places such as bus stops, car washes or day laborer pickup points, such as Home Depot. His words led to the term ‘Kavanaugh stops’ to catalog when a migratory agent stops or stops a person from what is known as racial profiling. ‘racial profiling’. Anil Kalhan, a law professor at Drexel University, described immigration controls based on the factors suggested in the judge’s concurrent opinion as ‘Kavanaugh stops’. The term was also promoted by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill of Howard University. “The Supreme Court, in effect, authorized the Executive’s practice of racial profiling without seriously considering the harms resulting from the stops, arrests, detentions and improper deportations,” Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, told Bloomberg. In a report released Oct. 16, ProPublica had identified that more than 170 U.S. citizens were detained by immigration agents. According to that report, there were about 20 children, including two children with cancer. There were at least three pregnant women. However, the government does not appear to be following up on these cases, according to David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.

FOX News [11/9/2025 10:00 AM, Julia Bonavita, 40621K] reports a startling rise in violent attacks and threats against historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) throughout the country is raising concerns among students, administrators and experts, as multiple shootings and fake threats have been reported across campuses. Last month, gunshots rang out in the areas surrounding two HBCUs, leaving administrators scrambling as schools attempted to ramp up security in the wake of the violence. On Oct. 24, as Howard University was hosting its annual homecoming event, one woman, three men and a teenage boy were shot just steps from the campus in Washington, D.C. Although none of the victims were students, one individual was reportedly enrolled at Maryland’s Morgan State. Police arrested two 19-year-old suspects and recovered three guns in connection with the shooting, according to FOX 5. However, authorities have since said that more individuals may have been involved. Over the same weekend, one person was killed and six were injured by gunfire at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, according to authorities. One suspect was subsequently taken into custody in connection with the shooting. "The sad commentary is, in these communities, you’re finding that there are individuals who are armed and also enjoy athletic events," criminal and civil trial attorney Ted Williams, a former police officer in the capital, told Fox News Digital. "They are armed with guns and decide to attend these athletic events, and they also bring their guns with them.". Additionally, a shooting at South Carolina State University’s homecoming killed a 19-year-old visitor and injured another attendee, according to Inside Higher Ed. The shooter was reportedly not a student at the university. Another incident involving three individuals being arrested at Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana’s homecoming after they were allegedly caught carrying guns on campus, the outlet reported. One individual reportedly fired a weapon, though no one was injured. "These are individuals who are outside of the college community itself, [and] are creating problems and havoc for individuals who just want to go to one of these athletic events that are occurring on a HBCU campus without being shot," Williams said. "It’s very puzzling.".

San Diego Union Tribune [11/9/2025 10:20 AM, Sam Tabachnik, 1538K] reports the Trump administration has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection and calling into question the future of America’s role in repatriating looted relics, according to multiple people familiar with the changes. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security established the Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities program in 2017 to "conduct training on the preservation, protection and investigation of cultural heritage and property; to coordinate and support investigations involving the illicit trafficking of cultural property around the world; and to facilitate the repatriation of illicit cultural items seized as a result of (federal) investigations to the objects and artifacts’ lawful and rightful owners.". Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases. A select number of additional agents around the country also worked these cases, including a nationwide investigation into looted Thai objects. The Denver Art Museum has previously acknowledged that two relics from Thailand in its collection are part of that federal investigation. Since 2007, HSI says it has repatriated over 20,000 items to more than 40 countries. But the Trump administration, as part of its unprecedented mass-deportation agenda, earlier this year dissolved the cultural property program and moved the agents to immigration enforcement, multiple people with knowledge of the change told The Denver Post.

San Diego Union Tribune [11/9/2025 8:00 AM, Michael Smolens, 1538K] reports there’s a new reality we’re likely to experience: U.S. troops regularly patrolling streets in American cities. It’s clear that the presence of heavily armed immigration agents and National Guard members in Democratic metropolitan areas is not a short-lived policy of President Donald Trump. The courts may still rule against Trump’s use of the National Guard as he is trying to do. But even if they do, he has a history of ignoring the judges or otherwise looking for workarounds on legal prohibitions. He’s not designating special National Guard "reaction forces" as essentially a federal domestic police force for nothing. His claim that they are needed to deal with civil unrest would be laughable if it weren’t so serious and potentially dangerous. Trump has said he would use various branches of the standing military for the same purpose. Given his actions so far, why do so many people seem to shrug this off as idle talk? There has not been the kind of widespread unrest — let alone any insurrection — that he suggests requires military involvement, despite his claims. What protests have occurred so far can, have and should be handled by local law enforcement, as governors and mayors of those cities maintain and as prescribed by law. The Pentagon says thousands of National Guard personnel are being prepared for civil unrest in urban areas. This, of course, is a departure from the Guard’s traditional duties of assisting during natural disasters and, on rare occasions, helping protect the public and property during widespread rioting. We can only hope that the members of these units will be trained in ways that prioritize professionalism and restraint, not the thuggish tactics regularly displayed by federal agents during immigration enforcement.

Washington Examiner [11/10/2025 5:00 AM, Conn Carroll, 1394K] reports by itself, a Washington, D.C., jury’s acquittal of a 37-year-old man of assault for throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer isn’t particularly troubling; it’s actually a little funny. But placed into a larger pattern of D.C. jury behavior, it is the latest example of an increasingly partisan jury pool excusing Democrats for offenses that would almost certainly have sent a Republican to jail. About 20 CBP officers were standing on 14th and U Streets, NW, a popular spot for drinking in D.C., on the night of Aug. 10, not bothering anyone. A man was so offended by the mere presence of immigration law enforcement officers that he started berating them with profanities, calling them "racists" and "fascists.". The officers behaved professionally and ignored him, but then he petulantly threw a salami sub sandwich at one of them and ran off. He was chased down, taken into custody, and arrested. The U.S. Attorney first charged him with felony assault of a federal agent, but a D.C. grand jury refused even to indict him (So much for the theory that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich!). The U.S. Attorney then downgraded the charge to misdemeanor assault, which does not require a grand jury indictment. But after a brief trial, the D.C. jury refused to convict the defendant even though throwing a sandwich at a person is textbook misdemeanor assault. The sandwich thrower’s acquittal comes a month after another D.C. jury cleared a woman of the same misdemeanor charge, assaulting a federal agent, even though she injured a female FBI agent while attempting to interfere with the arrest of an illegal immigrant. It appears to be open season on officers trying to enforce immigration law in D.C.

CNN’s State of the Union With Jake Tapper and Dana Bash [11/9/2025 12:24 PM, Staff, 408K] reports yesterday, major airlines canceled more than 1,400 flights here in the United States. Another 1,000 have already been canceled today. And it’s about to get worse, with air traffic controllers set to miss their second full paycheck this week. In addition to those cancellations, more than 6,000 flights were delayed this weekend, sometimes for hours and hours. Secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy discusses what he expects in the coming week and what travelers are in for, should the government remain closed. Secretary Duffy says that 18 of 22 flight controllers in Atlanta didn’t show up and 81 staffing triggers throughout the national airspace, meaning air traffic controllers were not coming to work. "It’s only going to get worse. I look to the two weeks before Thanksgiving. You’re going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle. We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays. They want to see their family. They want to celebrate this great American holiday. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane because there are not going to be that many flights that fly if this thing doesn’t open back up. We have controllers who, again, are making decisions to feed their families, as opposed to come to towers or TRACONs or centers and do their jobs. And I want them to come to work. The problem is, they’re confronted with real economic problems. The answer is, vote to open up the government and then have your debates, have your conversation. I think that’s the best way and best approach to get America back operational." Duffy states.

FOX News Sunday [11/9/2025 11:55 AM, Staff] reports Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joins ‘Fox News Sunday’ to discuss potential flight delays and cancellations as the government shutdown continues.

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos [11/9/2025 11:38 AM, Staff, 2119K] reports the U.S. economy is starting to see permanent impact due to the government shutdown. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the impact was see from day one but its getting work. "We had a fantastic economy under President Trump the past two quarters. And now there are estimates that the economy, economic growth for this quarter, could be cut by as much as half if the shutdown continues. And what your correspondent didn’t talk about there, George, was there’s, of course, the human cost, and we’re going to have the busiest travel day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving. And, you know, Americans should look to five Democratic senators to come across the aisle to open that. But on the other side, there’s also, cargo is being slowed down. So, you know, we could end up with shortages, whether it’s in our supply chains, whether it’s for the holidays." Bessent comments.

ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos [11/9/2025 11:38 AM, Staff, 2119K] reports affordability and inflation is one of the key concerns that voters said was on their minds when voting this Tuesday. It appeared to be the driving force in the elections. President Trump is still insisting that prices are way down even though last month’s report showed inflation stuck at about 3 percent. Are Americans worried about inflation just wrong? Bessent had this to say "Under the Biden administration where, you know, the administration and the media gaslit everyone and said, "Oh, you know, there’s a vibe session. You don’t understand how good you had -- had it." And what happened then was we had the worst inflation, 40 or 50 years -- you know, 22, 23 percent, but the basket of goods and services for working Americans was up more than 30 percent. And what we’re seeing is we had to stop the increase first. Now we are starting to see prices level off, come down. You know, gasoline is down, interest rates are down, so mortgages are down. And I think we are making substantial progress on that. And I think over the coming months and the next year, prices are going to come down." President Trump posted about tariffs this morning, saying that “people that are against tariffs are fools. We’re taking in trillions of dollars.” Is that true? Bessent says over the course of the next few years trillions of dollars can be made. He goes on to say that the real goal of the tariffs is to re-balance trade and make it more fair. "The president’s goal is to bring back manufacturing to the U.S. You know, for the past two, three, four decades we have seen our manufacturing sector gutted. So, what would happen over time is we would take insubstantial money, as factories come back to the U.S., as we’re seeing now. I was just down in South Carolina at a rare earth magnet plant and a Boeing plant on Friday. And, you know, that’s the, I believe, 1,500 total new jobs. Tariff income will be substantial, but then that will rebalance. The goal here, is to re-balance trade. So, tariff income will be substantial at the beginning. It will come down. And then domestic tax revenues will climb as corporate taxes go up and all of these high-paying jobs are created." Bessent states.

Univision [11/9/2025 6:36 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports a photo posted on social media sparked controversy in a Georgia school district because it shows a school employee wearing a "Mexican" costume and her husband dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during Halloween. The image has drawn criticism from members of the Pickens County School District community, who considered it insensitive and offensive. One person contacted Univision to report this issue and express their outrage. "I’m sure he’ll get away with it wearing that disgusting and racist costume. They deleted the post, and now that’s the norm," said the user. The school employee was identified as Wendy Gleason, who works as an accountant and administrative assistant at Tate Elementary School, according to local reports. The photo was taken outside of school hours and shared on social media. In the image, Gleason appears wearing a hat, poncho, and fake mustache, while her husband wears a black uniform with a cap that reads "ICE." The post quickly generated a reaction on social media, with comments from parents and members of the Latino community who consider the costumes offensive and insensitive given the tension experienced by thousands of migrant families in Georgia and the rest of the country. Following the controversy generated by the photograph, Gleason posted an apology stating: "I sincerely apologize for wearing an offensive costume. It was insensitive, and I deeply regret that it hurt members of our community." "Given that this is a personnel matter, we are limited in what we can share publicly, but we want you to know that we take this situation seriously and are addressing it through our internal processes," reads the message sent to the student community. This incident has sparked a debate about the use of social media by public employees and how actions outside the workplace can affect the community’s perception. Some parents point out that, although the post did not occur at school, the fact that an employee is publicly visible can affect trust and the school environment. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [11/9/2025 10:34 AM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports Oklahoma law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 70 illegal aliens in a targeted highway sweep, including 34 caught unlawfully operating commercial vehicles. Many had obtained CDLs from sanctuary states, such as California, Illinois, and New York, despite lacking legal status or basic English proficiency. Officials warn that these policies are putting lives at risk by enabling unqualified drivers to operate massive tractor-trailers across state lines. During a two-day "special emphasis" operation on Oklahoma highways, ICE officers and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers operating under a 287(g) agreement arrested 70 illegal aliens. These include 36 criminal aliens and 34 commercial truck drivers who were operating a semi-truck or other commercial vehicle while being in the U.S. illegally, according to a statement from ICE officials. "For the second time in just the past month, the state of Oklahoma and ICE have banded together to bolster public safety along Oklahoma’s highways, identifying and apprehending illegal aliens who are in the country illegally and have been recklessly issued a commercial driver’s license by states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey," said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles. "Many of the illegal aliens arrested behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer can’t even read basic English, endangering everyone they encounter on the roads.". American Truckers United spokesman Shannon Everett told Breitbart Texas on Sunday, "Oklahoma excels in CMV enforcement against illegal aliens at the wheel. Leaders like Governor Stitt, Senator Sacchieri, Representative Wilk, and Commissioner Tipton are committed to Oklahoma and highway safety.". "Through the Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act of 2025, they’re increasing busts on unqualified drivers, mandating language standards, and collaborating with ICE," Everett added. "They have laid the foundation for other states to follow. Further proof you don’t have to wait for heroes— You can act! Draft, enforce, and secure America’s highways today.". He encouraged other states to follow suit.

Univision Chicago WGBO [11/9/2025 3:44 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports the arrest of a teacher by federal agents inside a daycare center northwest of Chicago has sparked controversy and conflicting accounts between parents, local leaders and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While witnesses denounce the teacher’s arrest within the campus, DHS maintains that the reports released are “inaccurate and false.” On Wednesday, November 5, Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, a teacher at the Intercultural Immersive Daycare Rayito de Sol, was arrested in Cook County. According to witnesses, the officers would have arrested her inside the nursery. After the events, the parents offered a press conference Wednesday to demand explanations and express their concern about the operation that occurred inside the school. Congresswoman Delia Ramirez presented a different version from federal authorities. After checking the security cameras of the nursery, he said "watch the agents enter the place and check the room for the teacher." The Colombian Embassy in the United States issued a statement through its official networks: “In relation to the case of the Colombian citizen detained last Wednesday, November 5 in the city of Chicago, the Embassy of Colombia in Chicago, the competent authorities have been asked to access the national and direct communication is maintained with their legal representation, in order to activate the corresponding consular assistance." “In compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the Colombian government, through its embassy and consulates in the United States, ensures the guarantee of due process and the protection of the rights of its nationals abroad.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released the following statement correcting inaccurate and false reports claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents targeted a daycare center in Chicago, Illinois.” "This undocumented Colombian immigrant, Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, was intercepted by the Border Patrol on March 26, 2023 after illegally crossing the southern border. The Biden administration released it and sent it to the United States," they said. They added that the woman would have paid for her children to meet with her in Chicago, but were intercepted in El Paso, Texas.

Houston Chronicle [11/9/2025 12:59 PM, Sam González Kelly, 2983K] reports Houston Mayor John Whitmire acknowledged Saturday that the city is cooperating with federal immigration authorities after denying for months that Houston police would get involved with immigration enforcement. Whitmire was a guest speaker at a conference Saturday hosted by former Kemah Mayor Bill King, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. During their conversation, King mentioned that Whitmire had recently been the subject of a New York Times profile about how the mayor is keeping Houston safe while President Donald Trump sends militarized immigration agents into other Democratic cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. Whitmire, speaking to a largely friendly audience of about 250 people, lauded Houston’s diversity and the contributions that immigrants bring to the city, but said that other cities were in "turmoil." He said that some level of cooperation with the Trump administration was necessary to keep Houston from suffering the same fate. "I’m not going to say that we’re not cooperating with ICE, because that’s frankly not true," Whitmire said. Whitmire then shared an anecdote about how an unnamed official recently urged him to try to get Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of Houston’s public spaces. The mayor said that he couldn’t do that, because the Trump administration would send 500 more officers in response. The Chronicle has previously reported that Houston police officers have called ICE on over 100 people since the start of Trump’s term, the result of a department policy to contact the agency if officers encounter someone with an open immigration warrant.

Breitbart [11/9/2025 10:30 AM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports Oklahoma law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 70 illegal aliens in a targeted highway sweep, including 34 caught unlawfully operating commercial vehicles. Many had obtained CDLs from sanctuary states, such as California, Illinois, and New York, despite lacking legal status or basic English proficiency. Officials warn that these policies are putting lives at risk by enabling unqualified drivers to operate massive tractor-trailers across state lines. During a two-day “special emphasis” operation on Oklahoma highways, ICE officers and Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers operating under a 287(g) agreement arrested 70 illegal aliens. These include 36 criminal aliens and 34 commercial truck drivers who were operating a semi-truck or other commercial vehicle while being in the U.S. illegally, according to a statement from ICE officials. “For the second time in just the past month, the state of Oklahoma and ICE have banded together to bolster public safety along Oklahoma’s highways, identifying and apprehending illegal aliens who are in the country illegally and have been recklessly issued a commercial driver’s license by states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles. “Many of the illegal aliens arrested behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer can’t even read basic English, endangering everyone they encounter on the roads.”

FOX News [11/9/2025 7:06 PM, Greg Wehner, Bill Melugin, 40621K] reports a Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade after ignoring a federal deportation order was arrested in Orange County, California, on Friday after allegedly killing a 71-year-old man in a DUI hit-and-run crash, according to federal law enforcement sources. Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle, The Orange County Register reported. They found 71-year-old Barry William Tutt of La Verne critically injured. Emergency crews transported Tutt to a nearby hospital, where he later died. Witnesses said a silver Ford sedan fled the scene, and detectives later identified the driver as 57-year-old Humberto Munoz Gatica of Laguna Niguel, according to The Register. Gatica was tracked down, arrested on charges of DUI and related offenses, and booked into the Orange County Jail. The investigation into the matter is ongoing. Federal law-enforcement sources told Fox News that Gatica was first arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2011 for being in the country illegally. He was released under the Obama administration with a notice to appear in court but never did, leading a federal immigration judge to order his deportation in absentia in 2012. Gatica has remained an ICE fugitive since that ruling, officials said, living in California, which designates itself a sanctuary state. Authorities said he was driving under the influence in Dana Point on Friday when he allegedly struck Tutt and fled. Jail records show Gatica faces charges of DUI causing death or bodily injury and hit-and-run causing death or bodily injury. Federal officials also told Fox News that Gatica was arrested in 2011 on a robbery charge in Orange County but later pleaded to grand theft as part of a plea deal.

San Francisco Chronicle.com [11/9/2025 7:31 PM, Warren Pederson, 4722K] reports a banner opposing immigration raids flew over Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara before Sunday’s San Francisco 49ers took on the Los Angeles Rams. The banner, commissioned by public policy advocacy group MoveOn Civic Action, read "move.on.org/SuperBowl," the web address for a page declaring "NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl!". The statement against the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement comes amid tensions over the upcoming Super Bowl LX performance of rapper and singer Bad Bunny, who is a native of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. The Grammy winner’s comments about skipping the U.S. during his latest tour out of deportation fears for his Latino fans prompted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to declare that ICE agents would be "all over the Super Bowl.".

CBS News [11/10/2025 11:33 PM, Ken Molestina, Lexi Salazar, and Katie Standing, 39474K] reports on a Sunday in early November, Brazilian-born Pastor Albert Oliveira led his final in-person service at the First Baptist Church in the small Texas town of Gordon. A week later, Oliveira, his wife and three-year-old son boarded a flight to Brazil. Oliveira is one of many foreign-born religious leaders across the United States forced to make the difficult decision to self-deport. "It feels like defeat, honestly," Oliveira told CBS Texas Sunday morning as he arrived at DFW Airport for his flight. "We’ve been fighting over this course for two years, and now we’re going home." Oliveira and his family have spent the past two years trying to figure out a legal way to stay in the country, but despite their efforts and the money they have spent on legal fees, the family has run out of time. His departure is not only difficult for his family, but it’s also a blow to his congregation. "It don’t seem fair," said Wayne Wroblski, a parishioner and worship leader at the church. "He’s dotted all the Is, crossed all the Ts, made all the filings on time since he has been here." Oliveira finds himself in a predicament that many foreign-born clergy find themselves in. For the past five years, Oliveira and his family have been in this country on an R-1 visa, a temporary visa issued to religious workers. He is currently applying for an EB-4 visa, which is a pathway for immigrants seeking a green card. Immigration attorney Lance Curtright, who is not involved in Oliveira’s case, said this has been standard for immigrant religious workers seeking permanent status in the U.S. for years. "It resulted in a backlog of visas, not enough visas for really anyone," Curtright said. "I can just tell you that I’ve seen a lot of individuals suffering on account of it, a lot of people are scrambling trying to find ministers for their church services." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [11/9/2025 12:12 PM, Randy Clark, 2416K] reports Federal agents and local police struck a significant blow against cartel-driven drug and gun trafficking in the Pacific Northwest late last month, arresting a Mexican national tied to the Sinaloa Cartel. The teams seized more than 100,000 fentanyl pills, 25 kilos of fentanyl powder, and 34 firearms in a sweeping multi-agency raid led by the DEA and Seattle Police-with tactical support from Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC unit. Border Patrol agents assisted in the execution of a search warrant tied to a law enforcement operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Seattle Police Department that resulted in the arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel member and the seizure of 25 kilos of fentanyl and 90,000 fentanyl tablets. Authorities arrested nine others in the late October law enforcement operation. The operation took place on October 28 and led to ten arrests that are related to three significant and interrelated drug and gun trafficking conspiracies, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. The operation resulting in the seizure of fentanyl, more than two dozen firearms, and those suspected of coordinating the trafficking of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and weapons was the culmination of a year-long investigation by law enforcement officers in the Seattle area. Those arrested during the operation include one unidentified suspect directly connected to the Sinaloa Cartel, according to United States Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks, who posted about his agency’s role in the late October operation. In the Saturday post on X, Banks writes, "One target, a Mexican national linked to the ruthless Sinaloa Cartel is now in custody along with 9 others. Multiple firearms seized, approximately 100,00 fentanyl pills and 34 kgs. of fentanyl powder, and other narcotics were also seized in this operation. All suspects are now in custody facing federal charges for conspiracy to distribute firearms and narcotics."

Breitbart [11/9/2025 11:49 AM, Jasmyn Jordan, 2416K] reports Leidos CEO Tom Bell described a prototype in development by Leidos, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Homeland Security that is focused on next-generation checkpoints for passenger screening, during a Breitbart News policy event in Washington, DC, on Friday. The remarks came after a conversation between Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Leidos CEO Tom Bell, in a discussion with Breitbart News Economics Editor John Carney at the same event, said, "You go to any airport globally, and it makes Dulles look like not the airport we would all be so proud of.". He stated that the company is "prototyping right now with the TSA and Department of Homeland Security, a new airport of the future, which has checkpoints and passenger screening facilities that are world-class," describing systems that are "remotely operated, not congested with bodies surveying every bag," and that would "automate that process, getting the humans up and out, thinking about the whole situation as opposed to an individual bag.". Bell framed the timeline in terms of 2026, presenting it as a year that will include the U.S. Semiquincentennial, the World Cup, and preparations for the Olympics. He remarked, "I think every American would want it to be seen as a modern, progressive society that is embracing technology and embracing everything that America stands for.". He explained that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, whom he called "another great cabinet member of the Trump Administration," is focused on enabling an environment "great for the international traveler.".

Washington Examiner [11/9/2025 11:53 AM, Jenny Goldsberry, 1394K] reports Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted that delays and cancellations of flights "will live on" beyond when the government shutdown ends. Duffy appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, on the 40th day of the government shutdown. His appearance comes on the heels of 5,000 flights getting delayed or canceled in a single day. "The problem I have too is I’m short air traffic controllers," Duffy told host Jake Tapper. "I used to have about four controllers retire a day before the shutdown. I’m now up to 15 to 20 a day retiring. So it’s going to be harder for me to come back after the shutdown and have more controllers controlling the airspace. So this is going to live on in air travel well beyond the time frame that this government opens back up.". "This will live on" — Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring pic.twitter.com/YUBBajG644. Duffy referred to the shutdown as a "mess that Democrats have put on my lap" and explained how he is receiving support from the Trump administration. "Pete Hegseth, secretary of war, texted me yesterday and said, ‘I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I’m going to offer them to you,’" Duffy said. "Now, I don’t know that I can, Jake, because they’re not certified in the air spaces that we need them. But if I can, I’m going to use them.".

Chicago Tribune [11/9/2025 8:03 PM, Adriana Pérez, 4829K] reports that, as a Federal Aviation Administration emergency order to cut flights because of the government shutdown entered its third day on Sunday, travel was further disrupted at O’Hare International Airport, with over 400 flight cancellations and over 1,150 delays by early evening. The cancellations and delays placed O’Hare among the top three airports with the most disruptions on Sunday, alongside Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta and Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. Midway was less affected, with 25 cancellations and over 150 delays. Besides the flight cuts, travel might be additionally disrupted Monday in Chicago because of a severe weather forecast with several inches of snow and near-whiteout conditions. “This storm is bad news for travelers and will add even further misery to the current air travel challenges,” Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather chief meteorologist, said in a Sunday news release, noting that an early snowfall in the Chicago area will affect its two major airports. On Monday, the heaviest band of snow may shift south of O’Hare around 5 a.m. and then south of Midway International Airport around 8 a.m., according to AccuWeather experts. “This would result in the most impactful disruptions during the morning air travel time, as business (travelers) are trying to get to their destinations,” Porter said. If the shutdown continues, the number of flight cancellations is expected to climb over the next week. The FAA has said reductions affecting commercial airlines would start at 4% of flights at 40 targeted airports — which includes O’Hare and Midway — before climbing to 10%. Already on Sunday, cuts at O’Hare represented 12% and 13% of incoming and outgoing flights, respectively. On Friday, when just over 100 flights were canceled at both of the city’s airports, an employee described O’Hare’s Terminal 2 as a “ghost town.” The number of canceled flights remained similar on Saturday. United Airlines, for which O’Hare is a main hub, canceled at least 42 flights either scheduled to arrive or depart from Chicago’s largest airport on Sunday, according to the airline’s website. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that even more flight cuts might be needed if more air traffic controllers are off the job. Air traffic controllers have been forced to work without pay since the start of the shutdown, leading many to call in sick and contribute to already existing staff shortages.

NBC News [11/9/2025 6:15 PM, Staff, 34509K] reports among airports with the longest delays — almost all blamed on staffing — are those in the New York City region, according to Federal Aviation Administration advisories. At LaGuardia in Queens, the average delay for a departing flight is more than 2 hours, 30 minutes, the FAA says. The airport said on X early today that an “increased number of travelers” would affect flight times. It urged travelers to “allow extra time for on-airport travel, check-in and security.” Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, subject of an FAA ground delay notice today, has an average flight delay of 2 hours, 14 minutes, and a maximum delay of 4 hours, 33 minutes, according to the FAA. Teterboro Airport, also in New Jersey and 12 miles from New York City, has an average departure delay of more than 3 hours, 15 minutes, according to the FAA.

Houston Chronicle [11/9/2025 10:22 AM, Jarrod Wardwell, 2983K] reports it was a relatively quiet day at Houston’s busiest airport terminal Sunday with wait times at security checkpoints well below an hour, despite staffing shortages and flight cancellations on the 40th day of the government shutdown. Passengers entered security lines free of any major backlog at George Bush Intercontinental Airport’s Terminal E, where wait times were an estimated 40 minutes Sunday evening, according to the Houston Airport System. At Hobby Airport, wait times have hovered around 10 minutes for most of Sunday, according to Houston Airports’ website. Checkpoint wait times still had the potential to grow at both Houston airports, officials said earlier in the day, reaching as long as 60 to 75 minutes at Bush Airport later Sunday and 30 to 45 minutes at Hobby. Sunday marks the 40th day of the government shutdown, which has halted paychecks for Transportation Security Administration employees, air traffic controllers and other federal employees. Some have stopped showing up to work, causing major delays at security checkpoints in Houston, reaching three hours at Bush beginning a week ago. The FAA on Friday started canceling flights at 40 of the country’s busiest airports, including IAH and Hobby, to reduce pressure on air traffic controllers who have continued working. Those flight cuts started at 6% Friday, will increase to 8% Thursday and hit 10% the following day.

San Diego Union Tribune [11/9/2025 9:41 PM, Phil Diehl, 1538K] reports hundreds of flights were delayed and dozens canceled at San Diego International Airport on Sunday, but most airline passengers appeared to take the interruptions in stride. As of 5 p.m., San Diego had seen 100 cancellations for flights within, into or out of the United States, and nearly 300 flights delayed, far more than the last couple of days, according to data provided by the website FlightAware.com. Many of the delays and canceled flights were the result of a federal mandate to cut air travel due to a shortage of air traffic controllers across the nation because of the federal government shutdown. But severe weather, including a snowstorm in Chicago, was also a factor. In addition, the San Diego airport was under a daylong Federal Aviation Administration ground delay due in part to morning fog that had a ripple effect on flights throughout the day, said airport spokesperson Jonathan Heller. Southwest Airlines also confirmed that the ground delay was responsible for many delays and canceled flights. "It’s not that bad," said Ethan Perdue, of Oceanside, who drove his girlfriend to the airport for a flight on Southwest Airlines to Buffalo, N.Y. Her flight was delayed more than an hour, but she received an email in the morning with the updated departure time. "We had time to prepare," Perdue said. Sunday was the third day since the FAA ordered flights cut at the nation’s 40 busiest airports because of the shortage of air traffic controllers, who are going unpaid during the ongoing government shutdown. The disruptions could get worse. The FAA reductions started Friday at 4% and will increase to 10% by Nov. 14. They are in effect from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time and impact all commercial airlines. International flights are unaffected. And U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" that air traffic across the nation could "slow to a trickle" if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season. A constantly updating information screen at the Southwest ticket terminal in San Diego’s Terminal 1 at 12:30 p.m. showed only three Southwest departures canceled, but about three-quarters of the nearly 100 flights listed were delayed. Some delays were as brief as 15 minutes, most were less than an hour, and some were as long as two hours or more. The delays included a 9:40 a.m. flight to Austin, Texas, delayed to 12:28 p.m., an 8:05 a.m. departure to Portland, Ore., held until 11:40 a.m., and a 7:35 p.m. bound for Chicago delayed to 9:06 p.m. Southwest is the largest carrier at the San Diego airport, with more than one-third of the total traffic. Early Sunday afternoon the lines to check in were long, but people moved steadily and orderly through the gates.

FOX News [11/9/2025 5:20 PM, Ryan Gaydos, 40621K] reports President Donald Trump arrived at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, on Sunday to watch the Washington Commanders take on the Detroit Lions. Trump spent the morning golfing in Florida before he made his way back to Washington to get ready to attend the game as part of the NFL’s "Salute to Service," honoring military veterans. He was expected to sit with Commanders principal owner Josh Harris, who worked with D.C. officials and the White House to get approval to build a state-of-the-art stadium on the old RFK Stadium site in Washington. "I just want to say, was that the greatest flyover ever? Nobody’s ever done a flyover like that," he said to reporters before he left for the stadium. War Secretary Pete Hegseth was seen speaking to Harris prior to the game. Air Force One flew over Northwest Stadium during the first quarter of the game as it arrived at Joint Base Andrews. An intermediary for the White House told the Commanders’ ownership group that Trump wants the new stadium to be named after him, according to ESPN. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said "that would surely be a beautiful name.".

Washington Examiner [11/9/2025 7:01 PM, Asher Notheis, 1394K] reports President Donald Trump flew over Northwest Stadium in Air Force One on Sunday, where he attended the Washington Commanders game against the Detroit Lions. The flyover took place on Sunday afternoon, with Trump becoming the first sitting president at a regular-season NFL game since 1978. Trump attended the game to take part in an enlistment ceremony to honor the nation’s veterans ahead of the holiday on Tuesday. Trump touted the flyover ahead of the ceremony, asking reporters, "Was that the greatest flyover ever?". "Nobody’s ever done a flyover like that. So these are the best pilots in the world," he added. NFL on FOX later conducted an interview with Trump during the game’s third quarter. Trump’s visit to the game comes after an ESPN report revealed discussions have taken place between the White House and the Commanders ownership group about having the team’s new stadium in Washington, D.C., bear Trump’s name. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt hailed the prospect, saying "it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.” Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha said Sunday this report could be "trolling" by the president, recalling how Trump has also expressed interest in making Canada the 51st state. Concha also said Trump would likely rather see the Commanders rebrand back to its original name, the Washington Redskins, over seeing his name on the stadium. Trump told the press after his flyover that the country is "doing well," and the Democrats "have to open it up," referring to the government shutdown. Amid the dispute over healthcare in this shutdown, Trump is proposing to have money go "directly" to the public to purchase better healthcare. The government shutdown is on its 40th day as of Sunday, though Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned its impact on the air traffic controller shortage will be prolonged even after it ends. Duffy predicted a "substantial" number of travelers will see their travel plans affected this Thanksgiving holiday, as air travel would be "reduced to a trickle.”

Yahoo News [11/9/2025 9:06 PM, Theresa Braine, 59943K] reports one man was killed and another injured when their boat hit rough waters and capsized at the mouth of Fire Island Inlet, Suffolk County police said Sunday. Both the boat’s operator, 68-year-old Christopher Sicignano, and passenger David Johnson, 70, were thrown into the water and were not wearing life jackets when their boat flipped around 4:10 p.m. Saturday, Suffolk County Police said in a statement. “The boat then sank,” police said. A passing boater saw it all happen and summoned help via UHF radio, which brought Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers and the Coast Guard to the scene, police said. Rescuers tried to revive Johnson as he was rushed ashore by the Coast Guard and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip by the West Islip Fire Department Rescue Squad, Newsday reported. But he was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.

NewsMax [11/9/2025 4:09 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports opponents of President Donald Trump’s escalating offensive against drug cartels on the high seas are complaining that action is being taken without due process for those aboard the ships that are being hit, but former Arizona Sheriff and current Senate candidate Mark Lamb told Newsmax on Sunday that the cartels and their members should be treated as terrorists. "They’ve been killing 70,000, 80,000, 100,000 Americans a year with the drugs that are in these boats," Lamb told Newsmax’s "Sunday Report.". "If I were to line up 100 Americans, they would all say bomb that boat before it gets to our shores," he added. "The drugs that are in that will kill Americans, and the cartels should be treated as the terrorists that they are.". His comments came after the U.S. military destroyed 18 suspected drug-smuggling vessels in recent weeks, killing about 70 traffickers as part of Trump’s expanded counter-cartel operations on the high seas. Lamb said the approach contrasts sharply with the "hugs, not bullets" policy once promoted by former Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador after the killings of nine Americans in northern Mexico in 2019. "President Trump wanted to go in then and destroy the cartels," he said. "Now, President Trump has resolved again to deal with this issue once and for all, and we should. I love the way he’s handling this.". And, Lamb said, for "anybody that doesn’t like it, the open seas have much different rules and laws that apply there.". Stefano Ritondale, chief intelligence officer for intelligence company Artorias, also on Sunday’s program, said the crackdown reflects a broader U.S. shift toward confronting transnational threats at their source.

NewsMax [11/9/2025 2:24 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports federal agents have arrested six young men across three states in connection with an Islamic State-inspired terror plot that allegedly targeted Jewish communities and gay bars in Dearborn, Michigan, over Halloween, authorities confirmed. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force disrupted the multistate network after uncovering encrypted messages revealing plans to attack civilians and later travel to Syria to join ISIS, The Jerusalem Post reported. The men reportedly purchased firearms and ammunition and trained at shooting ranges. Alina Habba, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced the first two arrests Wednesday, identifying one suspect as Milo Sedarat, 19, of Montclair, New Jersey — the son of a Queens College English professor. Sedarat was charged with conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization and transmitting violent antisemitic threats. A nearly 100-page criminal complaint details Sedarat’s hatred toward Jews, citing messages in which he called himself "the biggest antisemite in America" and fantasized about mass executions. In one message, he allegedly wrote, "I hope a second Holocaust happens to them.". Prosecutors say Sedarat once told friends he wanted to "drive into" an Israeli protest and later claimed he dreamed of lining up and executing 500 Jewish men. He also threatened to kill a rabbi and his mother’s Jewish friends for "brainwashing her into being a Zionist.".

CNN [11/10/2025 5:00 AM, Mostafa Salem, 18595K] reports less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria’s president is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as much about the young leader as it does his push for his country’s diplomatic reinvention. Ahmad al-Sharaa’s meeting on Monday – the first ever visit to the White House by a Syrian head of state – will be his 20th foreign trip since appointing himself as president of Syria in January, and his second visit to the United States, following his attendance of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. But this meeting will be the most high-profile and high stakes yet, a once-unthinkable encounter between the US commander-in-chief and a man who has faced American forces on the battlefield. In May, after a brief meeting brokered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, US President Donald Trump hailed the 43-year-old Syrian leader as a “young, attractive guy” with a “very strong past,” and ordered the lifting of some of the crippling US sanctions on Syria, a country that for decades had been firmly aligned with key American foes Russia and Iran. Yet the most stringent sanctions on Damascus remain and cannot be fully lifted without congressional approval. Al-Sharaa’s immediate goal in Washington is to push for their removal while urging Trump to pressure Israel to halt attacks on Syria and withdraw its troops from the south of the country. His broader objective, reflected in his extensive global travel, is to reverse Syria’s isolation, a legacy of the previous regime that left the country economically devasted and diplomatically shackled to a narrow axis of allies.

FOX News [11/9/2025 8:46 AM, Anders Hagstrom, 40621K] reports the Iranian regime has managed to smuggle at least $1 billion to its terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon despite heavy sanctions this year, top officials at the U.S. Treasury Department say. John Hurley, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, says Iran remains committed to its proxy groups throughout the Middle East. Nevertheless, he says there is an opportunity to cut off the funding streams while Iran is in its current weakened state. "There’s a moment in Lebanon now. If we could get Hezbollah to disarm, the Lebanese people could get their country back," Hurley said. "Even with everything Iran has been through, even with the economy not in great shape, they’re still pumping a lot of money to their terrorist proxies," he continued. "The key to that is to drive out the Iranian influence and control; that starts with all the money that they are pumping into Hezbollah," he argued. Hurley pushed for the increased pressure campaign during a tour of Turkey, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Israel this weekend. Western nations have already laid down heavy sanctions on Tehran over its unwillingness to negotiate a nuclear deal. The regime insists its nuclear development program exists solely for civilian purposes.

NewsMax [11/9/2025 10:24 PM, Brian Freeman, 4109K] reports the war between Israel and Iran in June caused less damage to Tehran’s nuclear program than previously believed, according to Middle East officials and experts, New York Times reported Sunday. The experts said this makes another armed conflict between the two countries only a matter of time, according to the report. "Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 11 nuclear weapons, is either buried under rubble, as Iran claims, or has been spirited away to a safe place, as Israeli officials believe," the report stated. In addition, he report said many in the Gulf believe another Israeli attack is "almost inevitable," as Iran is intensively working on a new enrichment site that it refuses to open to international inspectors. Moreover, the Times quotes Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, as saying that Tehran has greatly increased its missile production, working around the clock to be able to "fire 2,000 at once to overwhelm Israeli defenses, not 500 over 12 days," as occurred during the war over the summer, in which 28 Israelis were killed. Vaez added that "Israel feels the job is unfinished and sees no reason not to resume the conflict, so Iran is doubling down preparedness for the next round.”

UPI [11/9/2025 11:02 AM, Staff, 2416K] reports China’s Commerce Ministry announced Sunday that it would suspend a ban on the export of some rare earth metals to the United States as trade tensions ease. The affected metals include gallium and germanium, which are used to make advanced semiconductors for computing, as well as antimony, which is used to make explosives, and super-hard metals such as tungsten, which is used in armor-piercing ammunition. The fifth metal covered by the suspension of the ban is graphite. China’s Commerce Ministry had announced the export ban in December 2024 ahead of the second administration of President Donald Trump, "in order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation." It said in a statement Sunday that the ban on the five metals would be suspended until Nov. 27, 2026. The move comes after Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea last month ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The suspension is part of a broader economic deal struck during that meeting, which both governments described as a step toward stabilizing bilateral trade relations after several years of heightened tensions. According to a White House fact sheet, China agreed to effectively eliminate its export controls on rare earth elements and other critical minerals, while issuing "general licenses" that allow shipments of gallium, germanium, antimony, tungsten and graphite to continue flowing to U.S. manufacturers and their suppliers.

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